IREAD test unnecessary, burdensome

9:51 PM,
Oct. 12, 2012

Written by

Lauren bishop-
weidner

Last academic year marked Indiana's first time to administer the brand-new IREAD 3 (Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination), the result of Public Law 109, which charges Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) to "develop a plan to improve reading skills of students and implement appropriate remediation techniques for students."

Reading is indeed key to academic success, and third grade has been marked as the year students move from "learning to read" to "reading to learn," a milestone linked to stark statistics about poverty, early pregnancy and prison. To address the need, ...